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		worthless-trash on April 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on t... To be fair it is perl, there was probably a library for it.

mhd on April 29, 2024 [–]

For Perl4? Not that likely, IIRC CPAN was started in '95, after Perl 5 came out which introduced most of the packaging semantics. I think Perl 4 basically had an "include" equivalent.

Don't remember anyone doing OO back then with it, either. Would be interested to know how that worked...

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